Gunmen kill 17 people, including five police officers, in separate attacks in Nigeria’s Katsina state. Northwest and central Nigeria are teeming with criminal gangs known as bandits, who raid villages. The criminals, who maintain camps in a vast forest straddling Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states, were declared terrorists in January. Gunmen killed 17 people, … Read more
Four police officers were wounded in a shootout with more than a dozen gunmen armed with machine guns and grenades. Police chief Omar Garcia Harfuch said 14 people had been detained, while two kidnap victims were freed. 150 officers, soldiers and three helicopters participated in the operation in Mexico City. Officials have reported that four … Read more
Gunmen raided a jail near the Nigerian capital Abuja on Tuesday night. Prison officials said that they had repelled the attackers and brought the situation under control. It was unknown who was responsible for the attack, but Nigeria’s security services are battling jihadists, criminal gangs, and separatist groups. ABUJA: Gunmen stormed a jail near the … Read more
Nigerian police rescued seven kidnapped individuals from a jungle in the southern state of Enugu. Forest guard and local villagers helped rescue the victims, police say. Police have launched a discreet investigation to find out who is behind the kidnapping. Local police announced Wednesday that Nigerian police had rescued seven kidnapped individuals from a jungle … Read more
Gunmen who attacked a train in Nigeria in March freed 11 of their hostages. Released captives in exchange for eight of the assailants’ children. Ansaru jihadists cooperated with an armed criminal gang to stage the attack. Gunmen who attacked a train in northwest Nigeria in March freed 11 of their hostages in exchange for the … Read more
State media claimed Saturday that gunmen killed a police officer and injured his wife in Iran’s restive southeastern region of Sistan-Baluchistan. “Last night… police captain Abbas Rahanjam was martyred and his wife was wounded,” after they were shot by armed assailants, Khodabakhsh Pakirshahi, a deputy governor of the province’s Delgan county was quoted as saying … Read more
Gunmen stormed a police station in central Nigeria’s Kogi state on Saturday, killing three officers, according to an official, with the Islamic State claiming credit and claiming a heavier toll. According to state police spokesman William Ovye Aya, the terrorists assaulted the police station in Adavi town and engaged in a violent gunfight. “The (police) … Read more
In an attack on a checkpoint in Iran’s restive southeast on Saturday, gunmen killed the bodyguard of a Revolutionary Guards commander, according to official television. The incident took place in Sistan-Baluchistan, a province bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan that is frequently the site of attacks or conflicts between security personnel and armed groups, according to the … Read more
LAGOS: Nigerian police confirmed on Monday that 16 persons were kidnapped after a group of unidentified gunmen attacked a college in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state. Mohammed Shehu, a police spokesperson in Zamfara, told Xinhua in a telephonic conversation that gunmen in large numbers invaded the College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences in the Bakura area … Read more
BAGHDAD: Unknown gunmen on Tuesday detonated seven power transmission towers in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk, the country’s Ministry of Electricity said in a statement. The attack took place near the town of al-Riyadh in the south of the namesake provincial capital Kirkuk, which itself located some 250 km north of Baghdad, and sabotaged the … Read more
Mexican Police Chief Killed: While driving to Mexico’s northwestern Sinaloa state capital, Culiacán, police chief Joel Ernesto Soto has been killed. Gunmen had fired some 200 bullets at the car, said local police. The convoy of the same police chief was attacked near the city of Mazatlan some three weeks ago which Soto survived. The … Read more
A five-year-old boy hailed as a superhero after he single-handedly protected his mother as few armed men broke into their home and started to shoot bullets. A video of the whole incident went viral on social media. It can be seen in the video that four men were trespassing the house, three out of them … Read more
At least five people killed in firing by Unidentified armed Sheikhupura’s area of Safdarabad. According to the local police, unidentified armed men, who riding motorbike opened indiscriminate firing over a vehicle near Sethwala, resulting in the death of five people. The deceased on their way for a court appearance, when they armed men attacked them. … Read more
Thirty people died and dozens were wounded in two mass shootings within just 13 hours of each other in the United States. The first massacre occurred on Saturday morning in the heavily Hispanic border city of El Paso, where a gunman killed 20 people at a Walmart store before surrendering to police. Texas Governor Greg … Read more
